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  3. Money can buy happiness, but only if you spend it on someone else, researchers reported. Spending as little as $5 a day on s

Money can buy happiness, but only if you spend it on someone else, researchers reported. Spending as little as $5 a day on s

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问题     Money can buy happiness, but only if you spend it on someone else, researchers reported.
    Spending as little as $5 a day on someone else could significantly【C1】______happiness, the team at the University of British Columbia and Harvard Business School found. Their experiments on more than 630 Americans showed they were【C2】______happier when they spent money on others—even if they thought spending the money on themselves would make them【C3】______.
    "We wanted to test our theory that how people spend their money is at least as important as how much money they【C4】______," said Elizabeth Dunn, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia.
    They asked their 600 volunteers first to【C5】______their general happiness, report their annual income and detail their monthly spending including bills, gifts for themselves, gifts for others and donations to charity.
    "【C6】______of how much income each person made, those who spent money on others reported greater happiness, while those who spent more on themselves did not," Dunn said in a statement.
    Dunn’s team also surveyed 16 employees at a company in Boston before and after they received an annual profit-sharing【C7】______of between $3,000 and $8,000.
    "Employees who【C8】______more of their bonus to pro-social spending experienced greater happiness after receiving the bonus, and the manner in which they spent that bonus was a more important【C9】______of their happiness than the size of the bonus itself," they wrote in their report, published in the journal Science.
    They gave their volunteers $5 or $20 and half got clear【C10】______on how to spend it. Those who spent the money on someone or something else reported feeling happier about it.
A)wealthier B)boost C)rate D)actually
E)focused F)earn G)devoted H)bonus
I)regardless J)discuss K)predictor L)instruction
M)happier N)In spite O)improve
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选项
答案B
解析 空前是情态动词could和副词significantly，空后是名词happiness，故此处应填一个动词，文章第一段提到把钱花在别人身上可以买到快乐，由此可推知．每天为别人花5美元可以增加快乐感。选项中，B项boost意为“增加，促进”，O项improve意为“改善，提高”，improve和boost均可以用来修饰happiness，不过boost语气更强烈，与文中空前副词significantly相呼应，更符合句意。因此选择boost“增加，促进”。
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